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Elpoca Mountain is a 3,036-metre summit at the southern end of the Opal Range in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, within Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. Officially named in 1928 from the nearby Elbow River and Pocaterra Creek, it was first recorded as climbed in 1960 by G. D. Elliot, H. Kirby, and P. S. Scribens. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny in the Lewis Overthrust, producing the range’s steeply tilted layers. It also divides drainage between tributaries of the Kananaskis River on the west and the Elbow River on the east.
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